Guys, I don't even know where to start!  The first round in Monroe was rained out.  So, the new round one became a combination of the Reedsburg rumble and the start of the WNS.  At Reedsburg, the expert buggy a main has been to wet to run the last three years!  This year mother nature again threatened with rain.

Friday....

Dad, Jeff and I arrived around midnight Thursday.  The track was not dry until about 2:30PM Friday.  I got my much needed practice time in, and felt good about my stuff.  We had some things go wrong during practice, but were able to get them fixed before Sat. .

Saturday

I ran Pro buggy, Pro truggy, and electric buggy. 
Buggy -  This was by far the fastest run of the weekend, I was the only driver of all classes to go 10 laps on the high speed track in the first round.  My 801X was rockin with Soft Cityblocks.  In round two, the ruts started appearing.  I thought my 801X was good enough to ensure a tq in the 2nd round also.  I was one second off ten laps with a minute to go.  I busted out a hero lap, half a second faster than anyone else ran the whole weekend.  I took TQ again, but ran a 9 lap 5:00.06! DOH!

Truggy - I had fuel issues earlier in the day, forcing me to make some hard  decisions.  I tq'ed both rounds again, and looked real strong.  Mainly by not making mistakes.

E Buggy - Not much to say about this, I lead from wire to wire in both of my qualifiers and took overall TQ.

Mains ...... and then the RAIN came...... BIG RAIN

E Buggy - I won this by a full lap, my car worked great!

Truggy - It absolutely poured then stopped twenty minutes before my main.  Luckily, the lower main in front of me made it a somewhat wet and tacky track.  At the horn, I was followed closely for the first few minutes, but when people came in to pit, I was able to pull away even more because of my Werks engines.  I was able to pit at 10:30 in the main, and easily pulled away with two lap lead.  I ended up taking overall Tq and the win.

Scotty knew a HUGE rain storm was on the way, so he decided to make the buggy a main seven minutes, and run it no matter what.  Most of us were optimistic whether we wanted to run or not, and we did.  As soon as we rolled out for warm up, it started pouring, IN BUCKETS.  I lead from the get go, but was able to hold off a hard charge from Jeremy Whiting in the middle of the run.  Most guys were scared that the mud accumatating on the car would decrease their fuel mileage.  Most pitted at 5 minutes, when I realized the water puddles ( a few inches deep in some spots!)  were actually keeping the car clean.  We decided to stay out, and it payed off BIG TIME.  I created a good gap, but with 30 seconds to go, my air filter inhaled to much water, and stalled the engine.  We tried to refire the car, as I still had fuel left, to get one more lap in to secure victory, but the glow plug showed no mercy, and I was done for the day.  I took overall TQ with my 801X and still managed to finish 2nd in the brutal buggy main.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgegDx8FuoA

I came away with all three points leads after it was all said in done.  Tune in for round two at MARCCA on July 11th. 
Thanks to my Sponsors, my pit man team of Jeff and my dad, my mom for all of the organizing, and Scotty Ernst for running one heck of an event.

I ran Werks B5 engines, Werks 2013 pipes, Byron 30/9 fuel, Ko Helios radio, Hitec 7955 servos, and AKA tires.

Brad Shearer

Tamiya - Werks - AKA - TKO Bearings - JB Paintwerks - Kalgard